Modelling water and nutrient fluxes in the Danube River Basin with SWAT.

ABSTRACT: This study provides an innovative process-based modelling approach using the SWAT model and shows its application to support the implementation of the European environmental policies in large river basins. The approach involves several pioneering modelling aspects: the inclusion of current management practices; an innovative calibration and validation methodology of streamflow and water quality; a sequential calibration starting from crop yields, followed by streamflow and nutrients; and the use of concentrations instead of loads in the calibration. The approach was applied in the Danube River Basin (800,000km²), the second largest river basin in Europe, that is under great nutrients pressure. The model was successfully calibrated and validated at multiple gauged stations for th

SUBMITTER: Malago A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5535642 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature